Word: castillos
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Unperturbed by all this furor, a swart, mop-haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
This diplomatic mummery disposed of, new Ambassador Castillo Najera spoke bluntly to newshawks outside. "There is," said he in excellent English, "a good deal of agitation going on. That agitation is outside Mexico, not in Mexico. Mexico is quite indifferent...
That U. S. agitation may cause Ambassador Castillo Najera serious embarrassment seemed, last week, improbable. Declaring Mexico's religious difficulties none of the U. S.'s business. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull have put themselves on record as flatly opposed to U. S. intervention. So, too, has the National Council of the Episcopal Church...
...Mexican moves against foreign capital (TIME, Feb. 25). Remembering the shady methods employed by some U. S. citizens in acquiring Mexican lands, the State Department is in no hurry to make trouble about the recent occupation by Mexicans of a few U. S.-owned ranches. There remain for Ambassador Castillo Najera the trifling matters of dividing the waters of the lower Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers, of keeping sewage out of the Tia Juana River, of settling the Chamizal boundary dispute at El Paso, Tex., of negotiating a trade treaty...
...munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General Hans Kundt...